The English Perfect and the Metaphysics of Events

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 75, Issue , 2008, Pages 173-193

  Higginbotham, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aspect; events; Perfect; result state; tense

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857197726     PISSN: 09244670     EISSN: 22150358     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8354-9_8     Document Type: Chapter

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